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Abilene Town · Beat 112 · permalink

Private office

33:19–33:41 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 33:2233:22Frame at 33:3333:33

Play from 33:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: cutting rhythm changes. Sequence 57 · shots 218–219. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, balding, wearing vest and neckerchief, arms crossed visible
  • man in hat and shirt, standing to left visible
  • man in hat, standing to right visible
  • Emily (named at t:33:34): unseen speaker audible
Also said
“We want to swear on a warrant for the arrest of Jet Young.” 33:25 · “Thank you, Emily. Come again.” 33:34
Seen
wooden door frame [frame:1], glass window or door [frame:2], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: law enforcement, naming and accusation, official procedure; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high contrast lighting typical of 1940s Westerns

A man in a vest stands with arms crossed while others look on; a name is spoken and a warrant is mentioned. The scene shifts to a view through glass showing figures inside a room.

“Go ahead, tell him his name like you told me.” 33:19 · “Jet Younger.” 33:24 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Abilene Town (1946) at 33:22 (passage 33:19–33:41); US record: No renewal found

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